This is a truly exciting time at Cycling Projects, as we go through a structured period of growth.

We want you as the marketing and communications lead for Cycling Projects to capture the impact and benefits of cycling initiatives delivered by the charity and then use this to hook more people to be active for the long term, more people to volunteer and more partnerships to be formed through this exciting opportunity to be part of the national inclusive cycling landscape.

Location: Any of our UK Trust offices

This is a fantastic opportunity for an accomplished delivery manager to join The Prince’s Trust, leading the work of our Digital team.

Making an impact on young people is at the heart of what we do. Your role will help our digital team build amazing products for Young People that meet user needs, deliver against strategic objectives, and meet the required quality and compliance standards.

Most importantly you must believe in The Trust’s work, live our company values and fit in with our team’s positive, supportive and collaborative culture.

What you will do:

• Plan, manage and assume overall accountability for the delivery and ongoing optimisation of digital solutions for Young People including both continuous improvement and major change initiatives
• Work with senior colleagues in Technology and across the organisation to facilitate the solution design process to ensure that project requests can be effectively scoped, budgeted and signed off
• Take a hands-on role in leading the full delivery lifecycle; leading and demonstrating through actions and coaching what good practice looks like.

What we need from you:

• Excellent project delivery skills, with experience of delivery within hybrid waterfall and agile environments.
• Excellent knowledge of the technical development process and good practice, including an understanding of the importance of security, data protection, accessibility and safeguarding requirements
• Significant experience of managing a development team working on bespoke development and off the shelf products for online learning and online content repositories
• Strong collaborative and consultative approach working alongside a multidisciplinary digital team, including Product Managers, Business Analysts, Designers, Developers and Testers, as well as other specialist roles and functions across the organisation.

For more information and to apply, please go to our website. 

To be considered, you will need to add your CV and a covering statement as to how your experience fits the role criteria. We are currently receiving high volumes of applications, so we urge you to complete a supporting statement, otherwise, your application could be unsuccessful. We are advertising two Delivery Manager roles at the moment for two different teams. Please feel free to apply for both if you are interested in both and use your cover letter to explain any preferences.

Closing Date: Sunday Wednesday 4th August 2021

Our Financial Planning & Analysis team are looking for someone who is enthusiastic to become the new Head of Management Accounting

The Financial Planning & Analysis function is responsible for strategic, commercial financial advice and financial performance management for the Trust including management accounting, financial bid support, budgeting, and forecasting activities. The team provide key analysis and insights for budget holders and senior leaders to inform decision making and drive effective, sustainable, and commercial planning.

This role has responsibility for the finance timetable and the production of the month end Management accounts. You will be Head of a team of 3 with two Management Accountants as direct reports. We are looking for a proactive leader who will be continuously looking for process improvements and efficiencies. You will need to have excellent experience of a role in a similar organisation with multiply locations and activities. You will also need to have experience of working with many different data sources and large finance systems. We also need you to be able to drive the quality and availability of financial reports across the Trust linking in with the forecasting process.

Specifically, the role will be responsible for the management of restricted funds across the Trust You will be a member of the Fundraising Workshop and will be asked to support Fundraising propositions.

You will initially be based from home and then based at one of our key centres with the opportunity to work flexibly. There will also be opportunities for you to work with Young People and witness the fantastic work of the Trust. 

Growing Diverse Talent

Regional Programme Manager (North)

We are a small charity doing great work connecting state school pupils with former students to show them a future that can be theirs and a pathway to get there. Hearing from past pupils gives students resilience, confidence and the motivation to study harder. We are actively expanding our reach to more schools and pupils, particularly those who are disadvantaged.

The Regional Programme Manager plays a key role in growing our footprint in the north, delivering our programme in schools, supporting improvements, driving forward sales, securing funding to tackle entrenched issues in the region, and establishing regional partnerships. The role responds to the demands and growth of the charity, making for an exciting and varied role and giving the post holder the opportunity to develop themselves across a range of projects and functions.

You will be situated in Manchester, allowing you to easily reach schools in the region. We are mainly home working at present. Pre-pandemic we had three permanent office spaces, though we are presently working remotely and using touch down space while we allow things to settle back to a more normal position. We will be reviewing the charity’s requirements and consulting staff on preferences in the Autumn and it is likely that we will take a base in London and Manchester at some time after that.

We would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and people with lived experience of the communities we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer committed to recruiting a diverse workforce. 

To join us, you will need: experience of working with schools and young people, ideally as a qualified teacher; a desire to reduce inequalities among young people in the region; to be comfortable pitching and undertaking business development activity, with the ability to influence and win others to your way of thinking; excellent communication skills; superb organisational skills; and to feel at ease with an evolving role that will adapt as the charity grows.

In return, we offer you a supportive working environment with plenty of learning and development opportunities. You’ll work with dedicated, determined colleagues and witness the tangible difference our work makes to the lives of young people across the region. We live by our values of social justice, collaboration, innovation and role models. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to hear from you!

BBC Children in Need are looking to appoint a Senior Change Manager, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to lead, support and embed this work, right across the charity. The role is on a fixed-term basis for 9 months, 21 hours per week and the location is flexible at a suitable BBC base, with a preference for Salford.

We are in a period of exciting change as we redefine our charitable ambition, which is that “Every child and young person deserves the opportunity to thrive and be the best they can be.

At BBC Children in Need (CiN), we act where the need is greatest and our ambition is to create positive and lasting change across the UK for the children and young people who need us most.  Together with the BBC and our partners, we aim to inspire the nation and unite communities to support us in our work".

We know that improving diversity, equity and inclusion is critical to delivering positive outcomes for children and young people and the success of the organisation. The CiN Executive Directors and CiN Board have committed to taking tangible and measurable actions to improve DE & I as one of five organisational priorities, as a leading charity, as an employer, a funder, a fundraiser and storyteller. 

Main Responsibilities

This role will report to the Head of Governance and Executive Office, with the DEI objective actively sponsored by the Children In Need CEO. 

The role will be responsible for:

• Advising on equity, diversity and inclusion issues and creating programmes or plans to promote understanding and progress implementation of these values across the organisation 
• Leading the development of an internal equity, diversity, and inclusion strategy, to ensure this work is embedded in the work of all teams, Board of Trustees and our partners
• Piloting organisational diversity initiatives and measuring success to determine any amendments that need to be made prior to launch
• Supporting teams across the organisation to develop and deliver local DEI plans, and monitor progress and implementation  
• Working in conjunction with the relevant teams across the organisation delivering KPIs and insights on progress against diversity targets and performance metrics contributing to data and help provide relevant metrics for specific projects
• Creating the space for DEI conversations to take place safely and positively across the organisation
• Ensuring that the DEI Action Group is appropriately supported
• Contributing to and supporting the developing ‘The Pudsey Way’ and an inclusive culture across the organisation

Are you the right candidate?

As the Senior Change Manager, DE & I you will need:

Essential

• Experience of working in the diversity, equity and inclusion field and working on specific projects relating to driving the DE and I agenda 
• Demonstrable record of successful project delivery (including budgeting, planning, quality management, problem solving, reporting, managing risk)
• Experience managing, implementing, facilitating, and monitoring change on transformational change programmes
• Sound knowledge of the principles and concepts that underpin change management and can advise on a good practice approach to business change
• Ability to work well under pressure, with complexity and ambiguity, and can flex to changes in business focus
• Able to define problems, evaluate new concepts, identify recommendations and solutions
• Experience in stakeholder management on complex/sensitive programmes; has credibility and impact with peers and leaders; able to gain buy-in to enable change to happen through others
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (including presentation) skills and a proven ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with a variety of internal and external contacts
• Able to identify both the overt and covert culture of the organisation and its influence on the change
• Strong project management and organisational skills, and an awareness of the project/ programme context and discipline. Fully proficient at planning, risk and dependency management

Desirable

• Experience and understanding of the third sector and / or broadcasting
• A good working knowledge of the community and voluntary sector in the UK
• Substantial knowledge and understanding of current equality legislation, including EDI best practice, and able to translate this into tangible advice for the business

Refugee Action is looking for a Navigating Asylum Project Manager to lead our work in expanding legal literacy for all of those in the asylum system.

Asylum Guides is part of Refugee Action’s Good Practice and Partnerships team and an early action legal literacy project, focused on increasing the legal knowledge and understanding of people seeking asylum. Trained volunteers – many with lived experience of the asylum system – support people seeking asylum to enable them to avoid or de-escalate the crises that arise within this complex legal system. In June 2020, we launched The Navigating Asylum Partnership. This partnership of 7 charities - funded by Comic Relief over 3 years - deliver Asylum Guides and work together to ensure that people seeking asylum in the UK can access justice, navigate the asylum system effectively and rebuild their lives in the UK. The Asylum Guides, Navigating Asylum Project Manager manages this partnership. Our Navigating Asylum partners and their geographic reach are listed below:

• Plymouth Hope, Plymouth, South West
• DASH, Kirklees, West Yorkshire
• SWAP, Wigan & Leigh, North West England
• Welsh Refugee Council, Wales
• Micro Rainbow, UK-wide support for LGBTI people, focusing on London and Birmingham
• Manchester Refugee Support Network, Greater Manchester, North West England
• Asha, Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire

To succeed in this role you will have:

• Significant experience of managing projects where there are multiple partners using a co-design approach with experience of ensuring collaborative and inclusive participation.  
• Insight into the needs, hopes and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, and the organisations which provide services to them, especially in relation to justice, homelessness and poverty;
• Understanding of the Asylum and Immigration System, legal literacy and access to justice, with a commitment to developing knowledge and delivering training;
• Understanding of Early Action approaches, crisis prevention and de-escalation in service delivery;
• Experience of assessing organisational needs, providing high quality development support, and working towards solutions with a range of frontline organisations;
• Excellent networking and partnership-building skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective networks;
• Understanding of the principles of data and how evidence can support policy and influencing work

For further details, and to apply, please visit our website.

Those with lived experience as a refugee are encouraged to apply.

About Us

The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery  to communities across the UK.

At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities and community groups. 

We support a wide range of projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes.

Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£588.2 million) of National Lottery funding to over 14,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. Over eight in ten (83%) of our grants were for less than £10k, going to grassroots groups and charities.

We are here to support people and communities through bad times as well as good – and that has never been so important as this year. Thanks to National Lottery players, we’ve been able to respond quickly and positively to communities working hard to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Their efforts have been humbling and inspiring and we’re delighted to have been able to help by distributing over £400 million pounds in National Lottery funding alone across the UK since the first lockdown began in March 2020.

 

Our Funding Strategy Directorate and Policy & Practice Team

The National Lottery Community Fund manages five distinct funding portfolios: the UK portfolio which supports work that spans the four countries; the Wales portfolio; the Scotland portfolio; the NI portfolio and the England portfolio.

Our newly-established Funding Strategy Directorate sits across these portfolios. The Directorate is a central enabling and generative function that supports the development, innovation and delivery of our funding. It does this through the provision of systems, policies, frameworks, guidance and other services to our funding teams, driving forward innovation and best practice. It provides consistency and clarity of purpose across our funding, whilst still allowing our funding portfolios the flexibility and autonomy to make funding decisions appropriate for their specific working context.

About the Role

The Senior Funding Policy and Practice Manager role is housed in the Policy and Practice Team within the Funding Strategy Directorate. The team is responsible for ensuring our Fund-wide funding policy and internal practice enables funding to make the greatest possible difference to communities, whilst recognising the wider regulatory and strategic considerations associated with the distribution of public money.

Working with the Senior Head of Controls, Policy and Practice, you will play a key role in developing our Fund-wide funding policy and practice. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that our funding policies, which set the direction on who we fund, what we fund and how we fund, are fit for purpose. A key part of this will be ensuring that our funding policy and practice is “for everyone”: we’re looking for someone who recognises that our commitment to equity and fairness in our grant making should not just ‘sit next to’ our funding policy, but instead ‘flow through it’.

You will recognise the importance of innovation in policy and practice, and have an eye for identifying internal and external insight that has the potential to inform our policy and practice direction. You will be well-connected internally and also hold some key external relationships. You will collaborate with these individuals to formulate well-considered policies that are aligned with our strategic ambitions.

The right person for this role flourishes in complexity and relishes the challenges of finding the best path through overlapping and often competing agendas. They are adept at managing a diverse and ever-changing workload, and setting their own priorities in response to insights from a wide variety of sources, including our grant-holders, staff, our senior management team, and external stakeholders.

Critically, you will recognise that decisions and intentions only have an impact if they are acted upon, so you will work internally to ensure that our policy and practice is effectively operationalised.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week

Location: Multiple locations considered. Flexible on visiting the office twice per month / when necessary

Interview Date: Tuesday 17th August, with potential second interview

Essential Criteria

As an experienced senior leader, you may, or may not come from a funding background but are likely to have significant experience working with mission-driven organisations. You will be a confident and clear communicator. Critically, you will be committed to turning strategic intention into everyday practice.

Specifically, you’ll need to have examples that demonstrate your experience, qualifications and mindset in these areas: 

• Experience effectively collaborating with, and influencing, colleagues from a broad range of disciplines, including those in senior leadership roles
• Operationalising complex policy and strategic positions through the changing of systems and processes
• Good decision-making skills, considering evidence, competing agendas and strategic priorities, and mitigating risk as appropriate

Desirable Criteria

 

• Demonstrated effectiveness as a communicator who feels comfortable in all environments – from one-to-one communication to facilitating/chairing meetings with senior leaders
• Experience of contributing to large, complex strategic challenges and systems change
• Values-driven and passionate about the Fund’s purpose.
• Strong commitment to the Fund’s ambitions, particularly in terms of equity, diversity and inclusion
• Experience building skills and understanding across an organisation or team, with clear examples of how you have simplified dense topics down to pragmatic yet meaningful content and action

For You

We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.

We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
• Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Season ticket and cycle to work loans
• Paid volunteering leave

Equal Opportunities

We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive.  We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with.  We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.

Do you want to work for a dynamic, creative, fast-paced charity?

At Action Together we see the amazing things people achieve when they work together to make the lives of others better. If you share our values; believe it’s possible; strengthen others and be true, we’d love you to consider joining our team.

Action Together are recruiting a full time Social Prescribing Programme Manager to develop the next phase of our already excellent social prescribing offer in Tameside.

The Role

As a senior member of the locality team, you will be responsible for the effective delivery, monitoring and evaluation of our social prescribing service, a key part of our Community Wellbeing Programme. You will work closely with the Strategic Locality Lead, our other managers, our public sector colleagues, and commissioners, our local VCFSE, our staff and our clients to ensure we deliver a high-quality person-centred service, are responsive and adaptive and are delivering against our commitments and values.

The main things you will be asked to do in this role:

Developing the service and our staff

• Managing and supporting a team of Social Prescribing Officers, PCN Link Workers and administration staff, providing them with all the support to enable them to provide the highest possible standard of delivery.
• Continuing to develop the offer so that it best meets the needs and aspirations of our clients and our stakeholders and compliments the wider wellbeing offer in Tameside.
• Establish and implement systems and processes to ensure we can deliver a high-quality offer to our members, monitor our impact and meet contractual obligations.
• Ensure that service developments and outcomes are appropriately monitored, evaluated, and communicated.
• Providing quality reports, presentations, and verbal updates to a variety of stakeholders internally and externally as required.
• To ensure that the programme meets all its duties relating to the protection of data, including ensuring we remain Cyber-Essentials compliant, and our practices reflect the General Data Protection Regulations.
• To be the locality Safeguarding Lead for Action Together in Tameside, taking appropriate action when these issues arise and communicating this to senior managers as appropriate.
• To ensure that all staff delivering this programme are trained and supported in terms of Safeguarding policy and practice and that ATCIO’s Safeguarding Policies and practice are followed.
• Assist the Strategic Locality Lead to prepare bids and grant proposals.

Collaboration between sectors

• To provide a link to and work collaboratively with the wider work of at Action Together to deliver Social Prescribing, being a key part of the Action Together locality management team, taking on additional pieces of work as required.
• Championing the role of the VCFSE, and local communities in all aspects of local delivery, and within a social prescribing context.
• Working with the public and voluntary sector to ensure that the insight we gather affects local planning and delivery of services and removes barriers for people to engage in support.
• Develop strong local (and where appropriate regional/national relationships) with staff, managers, commissioners and strategic leads across the health, care and public service economy working collaboratively to deliver the best outcomes for local people.
• Be an active partner, representing Action Together in planning and delivery structures as required and create a positive, solution focussed partnership working environment in line with Action Together’s values.
• Deputise for the Strategic Locality Lead as required.

About You

The ideal candidate for this role will be someone who:

• Is driven by social justice and has an in-depth understanding of the VCFSE and of delivering person centred services.
• Has great interpersonal skills and can foster and maintain effective relationships internally and externally.
• Is an experienced line manager who can coach people to reach their full potential. 
• Is experienced at operational and project management, assuring we achieve a high quality of service and performance to agreed timeframes.
• Is a skilled influencer who can operate within partnerships and bring solutions.
• Is an excellent communicator in person; in writing and effective in producing reports ad presentations to a wide variety of audiences.
• Is outcomes driven and able to flex and prioritise to meet agreed commitments.
• Experience in the way that health and care services work, and the limitations of the medical model.
• Someone who genuinely understands the role that the VCFSE has in supporting people with all aspect of their lives is committed to person centred service delivery, inclusion and social justice.
• Someone who is practical and can also look to the strategic context of the programme.

If you are looking for a new challenge and enjoy working in a varied role as part of a busy and dynamic team, making positive changes to people and the communities of Tameside, then this could be the role for you.

Salary: PO2 SP29 – 32 (£32,910 - £35,745 per annum)

Hours: 36 per week (Monday to Friday)

Length of contract; until 31 March 2023 (extension subject to funding).

Location: Tameside

The closing date for applications is 11:59pm on 04 August 2021. 

Fixed term contract for 24 months

Based in any UK office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

The job of a Save the Children's UK BI Developer is busy and complex.

• Are you passionate about providing high quality data solutions?
• Are you driven to help organisations understand the value good quality data?
• Do you have strong stakeholder management and communication skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

The BI Developer will be responsible will be responsible for the design, build, test and delivery of reporting and developments, in accordance with agreed development plans. You will play a key role in the support of the system, working with the CRM Team and Information Systems (IS) Team to ensure that the availability and integrity of the data and system is maximized.

The post holder will be able to read and interpreting what the business is saying to proactively identify potential issues and problems, you will develop, build and maintain all aspects of the BI and Data platform. You will also be responsible for data definitions, source system identification and connectivity, and performing data variation, whilst working with end users to define business requirements and needs.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The BI Developer will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

• Key duties will include partnering with multiple departments to help drive data driven ways of working, using query tools to transform data into useful insights as well as creating data visualisations and interactive dashboards to service requests from across the organisation.
• Creating Dimensional Data model from new requirements and develop a multidimensional cube using SSAS
• Consider how to increase connectivity between systems, building automated workflows and data checks to constantly improve the smooth running of the processes, data integrity and accurate reporting, working closely with the BI team
• Ensure a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development, supporting our growing number of global users and services
• Work with other developers across the entire technology real estate
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and methodologies to ensure Save the Children UK stays ahead of the game and can provide suitable solutions for the business requirements.

Person Profile

To be successful as BI Developer you will have experience in working with the Cisco Information Server CIS or any data virtualisation platform along with experience in working with Power BI or any data visualization platforms. You should be keen to work with new technologies and have the ability to work in a fast-paced agile environment.  In addition, you will have:

• Significant MS SQL experience and Data Modelling experience
• Experience in database management/marketing with a strong understanding of the use of data and systems in online marketing campaigns
• Significant MS SSAS and MS SSIS experience
• The ability to understand, interpret and challenge business requirements and translate these into a developed solution
• Experience solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.

Abilities

• Ability to understand, interpret and challenge organisation requirements and translate these into a developed solution
• Ability to understand customer requirements and deliver applicable solutions

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK's aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Please note: There are two vacancies available. One is a permanent role and one is a fixed-term maternity cover role ending in October 2022. The post holders can be based in London, Birmingham or Manchester, with regular travel required across all locations.

Job Description

As a Recruitment Officer within the Attraction Team you will be responsible for delivering a targeted recruitment campaign to engage university students and graduates with the Frontline programme. You will play a key role in working towards our mission, promoting social work to recruit outstanding individuals to be social workers and leaders, to transform the lives of the most disadvantaged children and families.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about turning ideas into action. You should have strong verbal communication skills, as well as professional experience of building successful relationships with organisations and/or groups that will enable Frontline to reach new audiences and promote the programme to a broader range of individuals.

You’ll be comfortable working as part of target-driven team and will need to demonstrate your experience of effectively managing your areas of work and delivering outcomes in a professional setting. You will need strong written communication skills with an interest, or experience of adapting communication to engage difference audiences. Experience in public speaking is desirable as it will allow you to confidently deliver a range of events like workshops and presentations. While not essential, experiences within recruitment, advertising, communication or marketing which provide an insight into attracting audiences from different genders and ethnicities would be advantageous.

We believe that diversity makes for a stronger team and want our organisation to better reflect the communities we serve. Therefore, we are actively seeking applicants from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds for this role. We are also a disability confident employer and welcome applicants with disabilities. Please let us know how we can make the recruitment process more accessible for you.

We have ambitious and exciting plans to progress and transform how we deliver our technology provisions across the Society and as such, are seeking an Associate Director for Technology and Infrastructure.

This is an exciting new opportunity within the Society giving you the chance to really make a difference within our Technology, Property and Facilities Teams. Your leadership will pave the way for our diverse and skilled teams and directly influence the modernization and transformation of our technology throughout the society.

As an Associate Director, you will be the driving force in influencing an inclusive, high performance, collaborative culture whilst embedding our values and achieving continued growth through innovation. You will deliver effective and efficient digital tools and capabilities that provide fit for purpose workplaces as set out in our strategic plans and be a driver in championing a culture of data quality to enable ways of working to be evidence led. You will lead on strategic planning, development and implementation of specific initiatives and transformation projects across the society.

Associate Director Responsibilities:

You will provide strategic leadership and make an impact, continuous improvement, building external and internal relationships.

• Develop and own clear and coherent strategic plans across our technology and infrastructure that are aligned with the Corporate Strategy and leading the delivery of these plans.
• Lead on and be accountable for significant transformation programmes, this includes modernisation of our IT infrastructure, business systems and data capabilities, and the provision of a fit for purpose office property portfolio.
• Ensure the provision of efficient and effective service delivery across the Society’s technology and property functions.
• Use your subject matter expertise to develop and manage plans and budgets that create a step change in the efficiency and effectiveness of our technology and infrastructure, delivering impact for people affected by dementia.
• Be accountable for working collaboratively with other Directorates and senior leadership colleagues to develop and deliver Society wide plans, projects, initiatives and decisions that ensure the Corporate Strategy and priorities are realised.
• Ensure that the voices of people affected by dementia shape the way we think, the way we act and the decisions we make.
• Use a range of internal and external data and insights to make evidence based decisions and develop plans.
• Lead, manage and support the Technology and Property & Facilities teams driving a culture of inclusion, high-performance and high challenge through objective setting, standards of behaviour, clear and timely communication and regular feedback.

Associate Director Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent proven experience with strong basis in computer science and business management.
• Proven ability to manage complex IT architectures and systems.
• Comprehensive awareness of existing and developing technologies and how these could be applied within a business context.
• Ability to recognise business opportunities and present a clear vision of how technology can be applied to achieve success.
• Proven track record of successful delivery of large and complex systems implementation.
• Able to work with stakeholder groups to successfully manage and embed change.
• Sound understanding of data protection regulations and of how these are interpreted.
• Experience of CMS and CRM products, data transfer methods and protocols and data security protocols
• Experience of contract management, contract negotiation and vendor management.

About Alzheimer’s Society:

Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia charity. We campaign for change, fund research to find a cure and support people living with dementia today.

Position: Associate Director - Technology and Infrastructure
Location: Home Worker (England, Wales and NI)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 35 per week
Salary: £85,000 - £90,000 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience)

Closing Date: 12 August 2021
Interview Date: TBC

You may have experience of the following: Director of Technology, Head of Digital Infrastructure and Operations, IT Manager, Head of IT, Head of Infrastructure, Head of Infrastructure and Operations, IT Infrastructure Manager, Information Systems Manager, IT Infrastructure Support Manager, IT Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Project Manager, etc.

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Vegetarian for Life is the leading authority on diet and healthy living advice for older vegans and vegetarians. We work with a diverse variety of stakeholders, including some of the UK's biggest care chains and food suppliers; government; and partner NGOs, to support, protect, and uphold the rights of older vegans and vegetarians.

As we continue to expand our work, we have an opportunity to create the charity’s first Head of Business Development. The postholder will be responsible for translating our strategy into commercial, income-generating activities, ensuring that we are providing valuable and high-quality paid-for services and activities to older vegans and vegetarians and those who cater for them.

We are looking for an exceptional and passionate individual who will take strategic responsibility for raising our profile among care chains and food suppliers, and exploring new markets.

You will shape the delivery of high-quality training and services, helping Vegetarian for Life to make a real and tangible difference to the lives of older vegans and vegetarians across the UK – both now and in the future.

You will have experience of managing commercial activities in a medium to large sized organisation that generates a surplus. You will have proven experience of positioning an organisation for future success by identifying new opportunities and by development or improvement of commercial opportunities. You will be able to develop new insights into situations; question conventional approaches; encourage new ideas and innovations; and design and implement new projects/processes.

You will play a critical role in supporting the governance of our organisation, providing professional advice to our Board of Trustees and reporting on progress against our strategic ambitions. Experience of working in the UK care sector is desirable.

Candidates will ideally be based in, or close to, Greater Manchester. Other UK travel may be required, and you must be prepared and willing to travel for this role.

In line with the charity’s core values, you should be a committed vegan or vegetarian.

Salary and benefits:

• From £35,000 p.a. (£17.95 per hour)
• In the region of 37.5 hours per week – full time
• Flexible working hours
• Employee Assistance Programme, with free counselling and well-being assistance
• 6% contribution to group personal pension plan
• Generous 38 days of annual leave p.a.
• Supportive and positive working environment

Closing date: 5 August 2021

More information: For more details, including the Person Specification, please download our Job Description. Applications should be made with a covering letter (no more than 2 pages of A4) along with a CV and details of current salary. Please also state how long you have been vegan or vegetarian.

Fixed term contract for 24 months

Based in any UK office (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester)

The job of a Save the Children's UK Lead BI Developer is busy and complex.

• Are you passionate about providing high quality data solutions?
• Are you driven to help organisations understand the value good quality data?
• Do you have strong stakeholder management and communication skills?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the BI & Data Manager, the Lead BI Developer will be responsible for developing robust, reliable reports, dashboards and analytics solutions that helps us to understand opportunities, threats, risks and demand so we are able to make informed decisions that will positively impact children's lives.

The Lead BI Developer will lead on the design, build and delivery of reporting, dashboards and analytics solutions to better enable the Save the Children UK to gain visibility of key management information and insights.

The role holder will be the primary owner of the data warehouse used by the BI & Data Team and take a leading role in ensuring our organisation's data infrastructure is optimised for enabling data-driven decision making. The data managed will drive depth analysis, data visualisation and daily / weekly reporting across the organisation.

Key duties will include partnering with multiple departments to help drive data driven ways of working, using query tools to transform data into useful insights as well as creating data visualisations and interactive dashboards to service requests from across the organisation.

Sitting in the BI & Data Team, the Lead BI Developer's role is to support the team's ambition to connect organisation systems and data silos to deliver a joined-up view of our organisation's data. This enables the holistic business analysis and reporting of vital KPIs which is critical to our success.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The Lead BI Developer will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Lead BI Developer will have responsibility for leading technical assurance for data and associated system solutions within an agile environment. Key duties will focus on:

• Working with BI & Data Manager, the Data Architect and other scrum and operations members to agree, deliver and document technical solutions
• Being responsible for data definitions, source system identification and connectivity. Performing data validation while working with end users to define business requirements and needs
• Reading and interpreting business needs to proactively identify potential issues and problems
• Creating Dimensional Data models from the new requirement and developing Tabular cube using SSAS where needed
• Developing, building and maintaining all aspects of the BI and Data platform, which include Tibco Data Virtualisation platform and MSBI stack including Power BI Reporting
• With the rest of the team, considering how to increase connectivity between our systems. Building automated workflows and data checks to constantly improve the smooth running of the processes, data integrity and accurate reporting
• Reviewing code and data model of other Developers to ensure the overall code quality and to encourage a collaborative development environment
• Ensuring a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development to support our growing number of global users and services
• Clearly conveying the key insights or "story" the data reveals in a visual format that is grouped, summarised, or formatted to be easily understood and actionable
• Keeping up to date with the latest technologies and methodologies to ensure Save the Children UK stays ahead of the game and can provide suitable solution for the business requirement
• Taking a strategic view on suggesting and delivering new services and service improvement
• ting as an enthusiastic and effective champion for our organisation's data

Person Profile

Experience

• Significant experience with MS SQL 2012
• Experience in database management
• Significant MS SSAS Tabular experience with the ability to create cubes from scratch
• Data Modelling – Dimensional / Kimball/Star Schema
• OLTP database development
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Experience of at least one BI reporting or Visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, SSRS, Tableau or any other similar tools)
• Experience creating Logical and Conceptual Data Models
• Experience working with version control like TFS, Git or any other similar tools

Abilities

• Ability to understand, interpret and challenge organisation requirements and translate these into a developed solution
• Ability to understand customer requirements and deliver applicable solutions

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK's aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

• Do you enjoy building community and forming partnerships with local groups?
• Do you have a flair for securing funding and developing volunteer capacity?
• Are you passionate about supporting people at risk of NEET?

Our Community Project Worker role might be the role for you!

Oasis Hub Oldham are now looking for a Community Project Worker to engage and work with hard to reach families, supporting them to access Hub services and activities to develop their skills, knowledge and aspirations. The key to this role is working with families to improve outcomes and help break the cycle of disadvantage.  Does this sound like you?

We are looking for someone who might have:

• Appropriate experience in areas such as community development, project management or you may have a relevant qualification.
• Experience working with young people at risk of NEET or helping people into employment.
• Experience of working with parents/carers and young people in need of support.  This might even be in a voluntary capacity.

In return, working for Oasis offers:

• A pension scheme offering 7% employer contribution
• A generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year (plus 8 Bank Holidays)
• A supportive, friendly work environment, with flexible working arrangements
   

Completed applications should be returned by 9am Monday 9th August 2021.

Interviews will take place in Oldham on Friday 20th August 2021.

To express your interest, please go to the Oasis UK charity website or click apply to see where to send your current CV and covering letter. One of our team will be in contact with you.  We encourage applications from people of all ethnic backgrounds and minority and underrepresented groups. 

As part of the wider Oasis family of hubs, Oasis Hub Oldham works to provide integrated, high quality services that benefit the whole person and the whole community.  This is achieved by bringing together the Oasis ethos and values, local and national resources and expertise, and working together in and with local partners. 

Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis ethos.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.  We cannot assist with sponsorship or visas.

Salary:  £23,396 per annum

1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Full-time (40 hours per week, inclusive of breaks) in the Oldham area.

Oasis supports Equal Opportunities.  Registered Charity No. 1026487